Choice Quotes

Don’t drown dreams in the sea of yearningsMake your own choicesWake up to catch those cloudsBe the person you want to be!

~ Balroop Singh

Before you're given what you want, you'll first be tested with what you don't really want.

~ Constance Friday

You can choose daily to brace up and face the harsh realities of life . . . Or while away the days that come by daydreaming . . . Better still, you can make your dreams your realities.

~ Ufuoma Apoki

The competency of people you mobilize to work with will determine the output you will receive. As a leader, always look for people who buy into your vision.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I'm single because I was born that way.

~ Mae West

But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.

~ John Steinbeck

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

~ Madeleine K. Albright

Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own.

~ Lauren Oliver

Life calls the tune, we dance.

~ John Galsworthy

I want him to live if HE wants to live. If he doesn't, then by forcing him to carry on, you, me..... we become just another shitty bunch of people taking away his choices.

~ Jojo Moyes

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is always a choice. You mean I could choose certain death? A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

~ Terry Pratchett

Those rabbits stopped fighting the system, because it was easier to take the loss of freedom, to forget what it was like before the fence kept them in, than to be out there in the world struggling to find shelter and food. They had decided that the loss of some was worth the temporary comfort of many.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.

~ Marina Tsvetaeva

He's in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel.

~ Ally Condie

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

~ Ulysses S. Grant

There is so much freedom in not having to choose.

~ Megan Hart

Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.

~ Vera Nazarian

If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all.

~ Tom Robbins

If man will not recognize the inequalities around him and voluntarily, through the gospel plan, come to the aid of his brother, he will find that through ‘a democratic process’ he will be forced to come to the aid of his brother. The government will take from the ‘haves’ and give to the ‘have nots.’ Both have lost their freedom. Those who ‘have,’ lost their freedom to give voluntarily of their own free will and in the way they desire. Those who ‘have not,’ lost their freedom because they did not earn what they received. They got ‘something for nothing,’ and they will neither appreciate the gift nor the giver of the gift.

~ Howard W. Hunter

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

~ Archibald Macleish

It must be something voluntary, something self induced - like getting drunk, or talking yourself into believing some piece of foolishness because it happens to be in the Scriptures. And then look at their idea of what's normal. Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to society. It's unimaginable! No question about what you do with your orgasms. No question about the quality of your feelings and thoughts and perceptions. And then what about the society you're supposed to be adjusted to? Is it a mad society or a sane one? And even if it's pretty sane, is it right that anybody should be completely adjusted to it?

~ Aldous Huxley

With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.

~ Alex Shakar

Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

~ Alasdair Gray

Now he understood clearly that roads do divide, at the crossroad there is a choice, and blinding oneself to it is a form of choosing, too; it is the fool's way, the coward's way.

~ Erik Christian Haugaard

Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying.

~ Tom Butler-Bowdon

O hell! to choose love by another's eye.

~ William Shakespeare

So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.

~ Mike Norton

Maybe I should be still; accept my fate. But I have tasted freedom, known love – I have had choice and learnt what it is to have a human heart, not just a compliant one.

~ Dianna Hardy

We have the freedom of choice, to choose what’s right.

~ Fennel Hudson

You have a choice. Take hold of your future or the past will take it for you.

~ Pepper D. Basham

My mother smoked two packs of cigarettes a day. Before she smoked her first cigarette, she was free to choose whether or not she would smoke. After awhile, her freedom reverted to Satan—so it would seem. The choice was no longer hers—so it would seem. Her mind and body were attacked with nicotine cravings that got so bad she would sometimes sacavage through garbage cans for butts when she’d run short on full cigarettes. I watched, baffled at how something so small and so disgusting to me could have such power over my mother. That’s the thing about addiction—it binds us one choice at a time. That’s also the good news about addition—you can unravel the hold it has on you—one choice at a time.

~ Toni Sorenson

One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

True freedom is the choice to create the desires one believes in.

~ Steven Redhead

Happiness can't be made, it's been around since forever... just freely waiting to be chosen.

~ T.f. Hodge

.. when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I'm going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humour, with composure.

~ Mitch Albom

Women deserve better than propaganda and lies to get into panties. Propaganda and lies to get into office, to get out of court, to get out of paying child support. Get the fuck out of our decisions and give us back our voice. Women deserve better; women deserve choice.

~ Sonya Renee Taylor

The tragedy waiting for politicians in future is greater than the gain in politics if it is measured, politicians kill, steal and betray the voters, but at the end they go to early grave, lose their peace and become miserable for the rest of their life.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

If you suffer lingering doubts; if the consolation you cling to is ‘it will probably be okay,’ then run the other way because what you’re contemplating is not a good choice.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers